The Carter Farm

Historical marker location:

Cotton Gin Site and Park, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Columbia Avenue (Business U.S. 31) north of Cleburne Street, on the right when traveling north.)

The Breakthrough.

The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.